Thursday, December 27, 2007

Landscape Progress




As some of you know, we have been working our little tails off since we have arrived in sunny Florida!! Here are two pictures of the curbing edging that we had installed on the 22nd of December. This yard was a jungle when we arrived!! We had many plants ripped out, as they were dead or overgrown. Weeds had been allowed to grow unchecked for over four years. The original owner of our home stopped by to ask if the path that she & her late husband had built still existed. At the time, I knew there was a small path leading into an oval garden. But after the crap was cleared away, we found a beautiful path winding its way all through this garden. This path just begs for its own garden bench!!

Larry has spent five days (so far!!) on his stomach trying to replace, redesign, and upgrade our old landscape lighting. No small feat!! To date he has used eight boxes of seven lights and still has more to go!! This, of course, is not counting spot lights for the beautiful palms or replacing & upgrading the transformers to carry the additional watts. All the old lighting was black plastic over 15 years. It was crumbling. The new lights are metal and have more watts than the originals. It would have been easier on Larry had the landscapers not cut through all the lines (multiple times!) for the lighting when they were doing the clean up. Of course, this wasn't really their fault, as no one knew all these lights existed!! They had burned out and the excessive follage had covered them completely. The same thing had happened for the irregation as well, but that will be discussed at a different time. (Hehehe) It is so beautiful here now.

Christmas 2007


Christmas has come & gone. We had a wonderful day. Patrick was here. Jason came with his girlfriend Brandy & her daughter Nadia. Our granddaughter Logan made the trip as well and Santa was good to all the kids and grandkids ~ real and "adopted". Dinner turned out great, but was late. I had forgotten how loud a housefull of people are on Christmas day. :-) Josh and Eden stayed home. The dogs hid behind furniture until dinner was served. Then they appeared for their snacks!!
Today has been a day of rest. Even the dogs were tired. I am glad that Christmas is over for another year!!

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

First Blog Ever!!

OK ~ Here it is ~ My first blog EVER!! I am not really sure what I am going to do with this, but it should be a great tool for sharing. My DIL will be ECSTATIC!!